When Hermann Park's $52M project wraps up in 2024, it will have the coolest new...
, who received the AIA Gold Medal not long after accepting the park project commission. As landscape architects, MVVA is handling the bulk of the work, including play areas, while Blackwell and his firm designed the major structures: picnic pavilions that almost look space age, a glittering carousel, restoration of the park's historic pavilion and a restroom building so gorgeous that it's hard to imagine that all it holds are sinks and toilets.
Jack Ohly, associate principal at MVVA and the lead landscape architect on the Hermann Commons project, said that the section of the park along Fannin, from the back of the Japanese Garden to the front of the Houston Zoo, just needed an update. In all, the Commons will get 1,200 new trees and 45,000 new plants, and the planting was done with existing soil enriched by using a novel technique generally reserved for sustainable agriculture — not in public parks.
The rotting radishes and decaying grasses leave the soil loose and rich in organic matter. That enriched soil was moved into large piles for use as new top soil. The radish planting was a two-year project that started long before current work; it ultimately saved money and is better for the environment.
"The architects don’t want to call it a 'playground' — they want it to be called a 'play garden' and these are landscapes of the imagination," Stoller said."There will be plants with silver and blue leaves, and kids can feel like their splashdown capsule has landed on a different planet."
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